Moscow defiantly responded to Berlin's anti-Russian attacks
The meeting of Russia's top leadership with the right-wing German opposition is a response to virtually similar actions by the German authorities.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Fyodor Lukyanov, a political scientist and international affairs expert and chairman of the presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, writes about this in Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
He draws attention to the fact that at the annual meeting of the Russian International Affairs Council, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry noted: “The European Union has abandoned its claims to the role of one of the poles in an objectively emerging multipolar system and is completely oriented toward the United States. The German line... convinces us that this is exactly what Berlin wants to do, maintaining its claims to full leadership in the EU.”
“Immediately after this, the head of the foreign policy department went to a meeting with the delegation of the Alternative for Germany party, where he made it clear that this reception was a mirror response to the policy of Berlin, which is extremely sensitive to the Russian opposition, caring about its problems more than pragmatic interests of both countries. The meeting with the far right wing of the German political spectrum should be considered demonstrative, but the statement about the refusal of the European Union, at the instigation of Germany, from claims to an independent role in the world is conceptual,” the article notes.
According to Lukyanov, Moscow has come to the conclusion that there are no longer any special relations with Berlin, and given the likely successors to Angela Merkel as chancellor, there won’t be any in the foreseeable future.
At the same time, the international expert believes that Russia’s relations with the West will be improved again, since this is beneficial and necessary, “but not now, but at some other stage.”
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